French parents could be BANNED from sharing photos of their children on social media under new privacy laws
- The bill would empower courts to ban parents from posting photos of their children
- Bruno Struder MP, who proposed the bill, said it was aimed at “empowering parents”.
French parents could be banned from sharing photos of their children on social media under new legislation agreed by lawmakers today.
The bill, which was approved by France’s National Assembly, would give courts the power to ban parents from posting photos of their children online.
Both parents would be jointly responsible for their children’s image rights and any decision to post them online would involve the child based on “their age and degree of maturity”, and the courts could ban the posting if either parent disagrees. agreement.
Parents could also lose authority over their children’s image rights if posting them ‘seriously affects the dignity or moral integrity of the child’.
MP Bruno Struder, who proposed the bill earlier this month, said the law was intended to “empower parents” and show young people that their parents do not have an “absolute right” over their image.
The bill, which was approved by France’s National Assembly, would give courts the power to ban parents from posting photos of their children online.
Struder, who has made a career in online child safety, said in an interview with the world: ‘A 13-year-old boy has an average of 1,300 images of himself circulating on the Internet.
“These are photos that can be misused for child pornography or can lead to bullying in a school setting.”
The bill arises after a growth in the trend of ‘sharenting’, which constitutes one of the main risks to the privacy of children, according to the explanatory statement of the bill.
It also explains that 50 percent of the photos used in child pornography forums were originally posted by parents on social media.
Mr. Struder added: “The first two articles are intended to establish the protection of privacy as one of the responsibilities of parents as holders of parental authority, for which they obviously must involve the child.”
«In the most extreme cases, it is expected that the family judge may, where appropriate, make a forced partial delegation of parental authority for the specific case of an exercise of image rights.»
The bill still needs to go through the French Senate and be signed into law by the president before it becomes law.